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letthem say who : could dare to say it, that the severest econom eught not to take place in the expenditure of the public moneyf Mr: D. 11011`, !I 6ititoher of the Soeiety of 'Friends,' itee'onded ' 'the resolution. He emild beer *hie testimony to the truth of *very article stati , d in the resolution. He could :speak feelingly to the distress, and to its ao 'riveted extent, which 1 ad caused 1 , , . . ill itl et alectitt•tirt,i, to lie a toniaiderable sufferer: He hoped that their deliberatioes would be tondeeted with that decorum which subjects of so serious an importence claimed, and which could 5i9 1 1 0 , Weave to thseir proceedings the copaideration . front higli.-1- quartile which it was the object of . the meeting to obtain. lii: Very cordially i.ceonded the resolutioia,—(Loud cheers.) 'Mr, .I. F. bury - differed from thole:who called the meeting, which let thought premature. The resolution now proposed went too far, The dieeussiou, if any, ought tee have been confined to the core-laws; and even on that point, Ministers, if left to theni • oelves, *mild do-tvery thing that was right. Parliament had - • been prorogued. , Why not postpone the meeting till November? (It is quits impossible to describe the " (hie concord" of leases - apdgroans which instantly ()eolithd this proposition, and Wise ' ! oueptly confounded the order of the speech delivered. Briefly, .._ every senteue..e, and in many instances every piece of a nentenee, _ . was followed by a response of similar fervour.) Ile would he heard—he Was in the corn trade. There was a fine harvest--the dread of the repeal of the corn-laws would-cause the growers to thrash out' their grain, and overflow the market. That would de notch to diminish prices. (Here the disapprobation overcame any hearing of the orator.) The Chairman interposed. It would be quite impossible to go on with the: meeting, unless they were pre. pared to give every Gentleman who addreosed them a fair hearing. Mr. LALLY resumed. He called upon the requisitionists to ac knowledge that the meeting was not sanctioned by the, public au. thoritiee, than whom there were none more respected by, the PeC lizunent and Government. Ministers were pledged to a revision of thee corn-laws; they were now engaged in the good work. Ile should be sorry to see them thwarted. He was convinced that ell the foreign lot it wealth be let out of the warehoueee before Christ miliks, end (as we under , itood him) that all the foreign corn which could be Wright, would be brought in by the same tune. Ile con : eluded (the noise of disapprobation eontinuing, and now growing beyood the power of the chair to control) by moving that the Meeting should stand adjourned to than day three monthe.-- (Loud hisses and groans, in the decline of which a voice roared, ' " 1 move that the mover of the amendment go without thinner for six months.").—The amendnieut not being seconded, fell to the ground: , ~ , MC. Siturrutwoweit.—ln furtherance of the important pur . pole- for which the meeting had been convened, he lead the honour ' to submit to thalli . 4 motion against the Coro Laws.—(Loud , , cheers.).--He did this with the most perfect Piatidletion, because , in his judgment of the, public interests, the question of the Curie ,Lowi, iii importeuce, surpassed any other to which the reselu : thms referred: Whether they regarded the injuries done to the country hy those laws, or the inevitable destruction of Lair trading system, which was threateped by their continuance, or. the Meal ' reelable advantages Which must fellow from their abandoutneut, the conviction amid not fail then), in any, or in all of these views, that their attention was demanded by them as a subject of the , greatest consequence. That s system should be thus persisted in after the fullest expoeure of its injustice, he would leave those to explaio , the cause who were able to TeCOOdle, it to the WISIIOIII '. , and justice of Parliament, and who, like Mr. Lilly---(Loud cheers) . , were ,ins thee habit of making those qualities of the Legislature' the constant theme of praiee.—(Cheers.)—With those who thus esti statedthe merits of Parliament, he entirely disagreed, though he was not disposed himself to go into that discussion. But confining himself, as strictly as possible to the question before them; he ,- would .only refer to the character and constitution of Par liament as they stood in relation to it. He would say, then, that their conduct on the corn question entitled them, not to any de gree of the approbation and isiefidence so unhesitatingly demanded for them.---(Loud cheers).—Of late years the attention of Parlia ment had been frequently directed to the Corti Lames. In their proceedings lee could discover nothing but the munifitstaiion Of a ' desire to promote private interests, against thole right's of the country at large, the consideration of which was essential to all ' . sound legialation.—( Very loud cheers).—The core growers:had acted As legislators, as if uo other interests existed exeeptiug their , own. In them, it would seem, were shut up all seeds and prin -tildes of nutiueal property. They wished to be seen and contd . - & t eed, hike Leander vie tile. Hellespont, la combining all things in th emse eeee, at once the pilot, the passenger, and the bark.—. (Cheers.)... -Their chief argument for a monopoly of the home tom a t o, was ,ths,t the burdens which fell peculiarly on the corn giewer, would not-allow Um mining his comitiodity to market in cornpe. Won with the cheaper growth of foreign grain. The trait' ion 'of the WI,. try . 1 / 4 r al grievims to excels.. Supeoeleg taxation 9,0 per ,•ent. ' . upon coin end alt ether commoditiso, and the foreign . grower . tempted, by the epening of our port*, to mek in them a better price than her could get at home Inc his corn, and that he take* back with him goothilo • the value of those which he bringa, his corn by- that prom (this only one which, in general, would cause its adniiiation to tho English market) is taxed equally with the corn of the liontiogrower. This reasoning would show that taxa tion must enter equally into the price* of corn and all othercom inothities. Tice argument of burdens laid upon the land must be limited, ice ,trey ease, to those taxes which fell peculiarly on the land. What, them were those peculiar burdens? If they ' • went ' 'back to the.year 1815, they would find a number of heavyitaxes on the land which do nut now exist. There were, then paid in • duties Minn faun-hetmea, fartmeetvatios, and farm-earriages,"ehent -• two reillione of pontide; upon malt and tether produce of the . ' fields!, about five talkies and a half, together with ace much of the L iroperty-tart as amounted to 15,000,0001. or 16,000,000/. On . l ac „,toint of thew, borikne, they claimed in 1815 a suffieheut in ' d em i n ty, and obey passed the Corn Laws. Since that period they ' h ee l ho eCteded in reducing those obnoxious taxes, and yet they won i zt w oggle, and unitise the countty should oppose therm ' •. they l eatid successfully to retain thee equivalent.—(Cheers.)— The'only to"" peculiar to them, the only hook of that sort uptia I i oald now hang their case, was an insignificant pro• whie " tifil et ' , tete I t h a t par t of the tithe which was charge. portion of the Tat. --, "( par t . 1 c o nsiderations a bl e on dee profiti ( „fatock. Yet f or tnese pa l t r y e s cool Laws resit the country with It ' would they eoetinue to ~.?"1 ) ' the operation el which was e x P litifted bY the present diSnrilereti state of the country and of its is 44 ' oure " . ' " l " What great e ff ects from .ittle causes spring. • oractical effect of those ~He then, proceeded to *how what was the , ~„,, . 435, the population taws upon the retourees of the cooutry. In i . . oat ow roam ,. ~'wee ab00t,8,900,000 ; and it was then estimateu . ifloo 'it peruser,_. annually 0,359,000 ouarters of corn. Ice . ,y „,.• , ' . was: computed by Mr. Chalmers, that the consumption v,.. 83,500,090. quarters. in lbil, and ISI4, it war taken by Mr, liVesterti, ,the,fefortus Apollo of tie corn system, and by Dr. et - dgehouo, xt ,40,000,0p0 quartets. By the population returns, !alum from Hill, to 1821 e it was computed, that from the feat p et 7iati t 0,1015, lies population lout increaßeAl from 12,00 0 , 000 to 20,900,000 p or a little move than one third. 11e would adopt that, for the year 1814. lie would amnia the increased con einoption t o : be in the same ratio of thee increase of population, and 12 m iTh o oe being addiel accordingly, the to -entity would be now 59,000,000 (I: tatters, Taking the present prices to be only lin!. the quarter Info* than the markets of the world, the eimisunuirs were now payitr;.s the toonolioliet growers 38,000,0001. sterling; above the worth of their produce elsewliere.—(Cheers.)— A claim so idonetroue, advanced upon grounds so slight, had no pareliel in any fact of reai history to inateh it properly. They must look into the regions of fidion, sued lie thought so proper es one that was contained ice et, work of none could he 'Voltaire, where ate Arab.' chief f e lt coteviuced that he was not only / rightful owner of alt that belonged properly to hinaelf, but of ail that belonged toe"very b(4l ' . rlse. -7 (L oud cheers and leughter).Another argo naut- of the corti.growere was roweled on the protection and du ties which were grouted with a view to give sew particular ma 'lubicture" a ' ffi wt"P ° li' of tier leoeiee Mart, by which the corn getswers were tonimelled to pay more than they otherwise would for theme commodities. If the agrhealturiats must have indenini. . ' ty, let Arson **kilt front those who have been berafilted by them, and not from the whole country, The triolitig chasms of to-day were Hot to h e made responsible for the faithe or follies of other times- They were theootelves the thieved sufferer., sufferer., and were ' conirmationlf due to any hody, tat,- ght to e the rst CM. i the legislature prohi l llioel ou certainh first attit.lor to be im penetet, • frosted, by . the very mew a ct , th . ey ttrohihited the , exportiaion of payment for other articles' whiell would tertailoy ix! toei., in o „,t e y hot ell the advaetage of the exchange.— them, and the t.' %claim all aßirovat of rototopely in mentifec- Let thrice at once a': . hob j a tore take 'jt b r ael 4 t s i vos, not *meta three. Let the from their liands—it ii.: 411 alw 4 Y o 1.- "veil ., itlttribrence i , they nought no p rotec t - 10 0 . but the elite:: . .. administration of those Uwe which ihnuld 'be Bur t 811"-•• ten t., 14 „seeete ' them 'in liberty, preperty, and ;I e.- 7 -(Louti ate:, vehem en t ' ' cheees.)-I'he eifect of this corn laws will: Iliezatcalontvoitch,,weiterren: ' of population, bronght with it a moat app average increase from 1819 to I , otief . was 450,000 annually. If *ls Co and the supply of it still progressed at any thing le" 0 -e• ta ! , 0 _ this corn . nws . , '. ' food shleild 'be continued under the ***trends f l,be _ se l nie _ ' - land would be hrought into cultivation which woo i d les lex tl . ' - .rhollo- unfit for tillage in soy eimotrY i" the wor ld, .out o f t i cs p C.O(IS of growing would increase till a wool I- to ' ' n' of this labourer to obtain a eaffteicot allaje. of the 1 1 "" 1 "! e '' pow, ' ' la y this miserable progression of starving and ' IC 4 "'""'P H Y. I % Jestadatiodi pluil'ation would at kola) h e c he he c i k v e es il. to T tl i :re p iati l o c i t o Q t . own wou ld then slowly commuoicate Lien : o f du; m mtry, anti comuuslitiot would rise ill Vecille? se ) us (0 prevent successful competition with foreign markets. Were it not for the superior industry, skill, and- capital of this country, the corn laws would have brought it to that state before now. When they had no .corn law, though weighed upon heavily by govern Mental taxation,, the country went on in its course rejoic ing. did not despair of its recovery; but he felt quite sure that it would not revive through the influence of that body which siessnoW thriving while all the other interests were perishing. " The smiling there, like light on graves, Has rank cold hearts beneath it." A recurrence to a free trade in corn was essential to our existence and prosperity. It was useful in the view of a general trade, and a useful employment of capital. From the number of our ships, convenience pf our harbours, and our insular situation, this coun try would become the granary of Europe, and we should 'succeed to a principal share in the carrying trade of that bulky and valua ble product. Opinions had undergone a favourable change as to this subject. Suiting their policy to the selfishness and cupidity of the corn 7 growers, who, its return, suited their votes to grants of money for the most profligate expenditure ; Government had -turned a deaf ear to all public remonstrance against the injustice of those laws. The present Ministers viewed the question under a different light,: and Mr. Huskisson, at the late Liverpool election, had ' declared himself against them. • (Here he quoted the passage in Mr. fluskisson's speech, which bore upon the Corn Laws.) In support of the necessary and beneficent purposes announced. by that Right Honourable Gentleman, it was their ditty to aid Ministers with all their might, that they (the Ministers) might he able to contend with some chance of suc cess against the almost overwhelming power of the landed interest. Therefore, by all the motives which induced them to seek what was good for themselves—by the readiness which they ought to have its repelling open aggression upon their obvious rights—by all the pride which should lead them to hope for the prosperity and honour of their country—by all their better wishes that through the mutual friendship of their country with foreign gates, the blessings of that friendship should be communicated to the human race ;—by all these motives and feelings they were called upon to lend their assistance in breaking down that odious and detestable system of laws. (Long and loud cheering.) He concluded by moving the second Resolution. 2d. That, in the opinion of this meeting, the alarming distress in the neighbouring districts cannot be etibetualty remedied without a change In those laws which forbid the importation of foreign corn until corn of home growth shall have attained a price which it is impossible for the people of this country to pay ,: which Wit, therefore, amount to an ex. elusion of that corn, and which exclusion operates to the injury of the Manufacturing classes, and of the nation at large, in the four following ways :—First, In enhancing prodigiously the joices of the prime never. series of life. , Second, In shutting-out from British markets all those fo reigners of various nations, whose need of the goods which we make, is surmised only by our need of the corn which they Witt' in exchange. Third, In making it the interest of those nations to encourage, by all pos sible means, the progress of native manufactures, thus not only depriving us of the trade of supplying their wants, but raising diem up against us into most dangerous rivals in the trade of supplying the wants of those other countries, the markets of which arc equally open to all. And Fourthly, tnlntroduring the spirit and practice of hazarding speculation into the formerly steady and regular business of all persons concerned in raising Or selling the products of the land, making the prosperity even of the farmer, stud the supply of the fruits of the earth, to depend, not upon the industry of man, nor upon the bounty of the seasons, but upon a system of averages, managed with so much falsehood and fraud, as to produce the most deceptive and injurious results. Mr. MARK PHILLIPS seconded it. Other speeches for which it is not possible for us to make room, and which were all equally well received by the assembly, were those of Mr. Prentice, Mr. Croft, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Burgess, and Mr. Benjamin Holbrooke. • The remaining resolutions (to which one was added for carry ing an address to the King, and leaving it at certain places to re ceive signatures, and then tabs forwarded by deputation, or other wise, as the committee shall see fit) were as follow M. That while ascribing so many evils to the operation of the cam bial this meeting cannot refrain, at a time like the present, front deciar. ill (heir belief that much of the evil under which the whole British people suffers, is to be traced to the enormous account of the taxes levied in title kingdom ; an account which, to its present extent, this meeting is strongly of opinion is unnecessary for the purpose of a Government anxious only to promote the public welfare • seeing that, besides the great sums applied in discharge of the interest of the national debt, a re venue several times as great as the whole revenue of England is ex- pended'in the maintenance...-apparently designed to be perpetual- ! -of an immense standing army, in support of what the Ministers themselves have denominated the " dead weight ;" in the payment of greatly die proportioned salaries to the officers of state; supplying, by pensions and sinecures, the means of extravagance to great numbers of individuals and families to whom the public was never indebted fbr'any the smallest portion of service; and in various other charges, for which the most prosperous condition any country ever knew, could furnish no excuse, and which in this country, after the exhaustion of 25 years war, are as unjustifiable in their principle as they are oppressive and destructive In their effects. 4th. That the enormous pressure of the corn laws and the taxes has been aggravated to an incalculable extent by the arbitrary changes that have been made in the value of money by the operation of the measure fur causing a return to cash payments : the abstract wisdom, anti meet, sits of such measure, however injurious itt its immediate consequences, this meeting does not in the least dispute ; but which measure being un amontstriled with any remission of taxes or any alteration 41 the corn laws, has had the ether of lowering (in many cases to less than one-belt) the prices of an descriptions of produce and or goods, except those which ' the corn laws and taxes have ininaturtilly kept up, and or lessening in like proportion, the income, the profits, end wages, Of every ma t s n o t dependent out the land and taxes. !AO. That for all these manifold and siggravated evils, this meeting Is firmly of opinion, nu adequate and lusting remedy can be applied, except by a repeal - (as prompt and etlbctual as may be consistent with the regard which is slue to those interests which have beets created by the present artificial system, and whiciedepends• upon it) of every law which en. lianas the price of bread, and obstructs die manufacturing and commer cial prosperity of the nation ; and also by an immediate abolition of taxes, to an amount which this meeting does not presume to specify, but Which, to produce the desired results, must be so great as to put an end to all Goverment expenditure, beyond that which shall be suited to the altered yglue of money, and directly conducive to the freedom and great ness of the idngdotri ,• that therefore an address and petition from this meeting be presented to his Majesty, most earnestly said respectfully 'statiog those views which this 'Ducting has talon of the causes and re. wellies of the dreadful condition to which these districts are redueett, and most humbly beseeching him, that lie will be graciously pleased to as semble the Parliament tOrthwitls, and to recommend the immediate adoption of those great measurer which, and which only, can, in the opinion, of this meeting, prevent his suftring and loyal people front being hurried into the perils and the crimes of some awful convulsion, sod width only can restore permanent prosperity to all parts of his Majesty's dominions. Mr. Banes hiving quitted the chair, thanks were voted to him, and, upon the unanimous assent being declared, three Cheers of loudest vociferation were added, and the meetiug dispersed. It must be admitted, that a Meeting so numerous and promis cuous in its congregation never displayed a more correct sense of propriety its its proceedings. THE LATE MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT Since our last, the ruins of the warehouse, together with all the goods contained in the rooms and vaults un derneath, have been removed. We are happy to state, that the loss of human life, cause by this appalling cala mity, extended no further than what we bad then the painful duty of recording; namely, one man and three cliil dreti, Ppm an inspection of the ruins, it appears to us dim '3;74 the immediate cause f the falling of the very t‘ lo (Wanted to the removal of the earth, warehouse•,atiutt for laying the foundation of an in making adjoining warele.use. held before Charles Uie Wednesday an inquest %v., t h e b o die s of th e Lawrence, Evq. at the Police Office, 0.. time Dailey, sufferers, viz, Richard Newton, labourer, ... Amelia Dallq, and Eliza Dailey, when the f0110w... evidence was given : John Moori, a labourer, stated that he was employed in siuhing a foundation for a warehouse in Suffolk -street, the corner of SUrrey-street, and adjoining on the south side . to a large bonded warehouse, belonging to Mrs. Poole. The bonded warehouse was.built last .summer. On Monday, the 7th instant, a few minutes , before one o'clock, he was dressing bricks in the street, about five yards from the warehouse on the south side, when he hap pened to look towards the building, and saw a;great bulge out between the two arches of the warehouse on the side of the foundation. He immediately called out to Poole, who was standing near him, that gie warehouse' was falling, and in a moment the warehouse fell, and they could not sea one another for several minutes on account of, the dust, The deceased, Richard Newton, was got out of the ruins about balf-past live o'clock that afternoon, quite dead, and Peter Leadbetter bad been got out about two o'cloek, alive, but much hurt. Witness did not know what fathily the deceased had. Ellen -Newton, widow of the deceased Richard Newton, deposed, that on Monday,her husband got his dinner at rn boe, and left ab o ut twelve o'clock in good health; she did not see him again until six o'clock, when bewail brought home dead, Wm. Dailey, the father of the children, deposed, that be lived in a house at the back of the warehouse. On Mon day he went home to dinner about twelve o'clock ; the di cnksed children and his other two, now in the Infirmary, were at borne then. Re left home before one o'clock, when tw o Of thoni, Eliza and William, accompanied him a heard of the. V 4 i Ph) f w lie went home, and ainirt iflud then returned home. When he )16 , JlQtlie i Is! " and it ni , 11 , , told his family mi4sing• Jane Amelia were gut • ' .1"7 . r T V 'Ait that nig it, am. #4.lza on liegrA, night. found 'Vbis Wing the whole of the evidence as to tltiMe lancholy affair, the jury returuul a verdict, that the dellt l o of the deceased persone Was caused by avritient.--Liver pool Courier. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, 1826. We mentioned some days ago, that the conditions of the Act of the 6th of his present MAJESTY, regulating the trade of the British possessions abroad, not having been in all respects fulfilled by the Govern ment of the United States of America, the direct in tercourse between the ports of that Country and the Colonies of, the United Kingdom would necessarily be interrupted. The Gazette of last night contains the Order which His MAJESTY in Council has been pleased to issue on this subject. After reciting the privileges granted by the Act, and the con ditions on which those privileges were to be en joyed, and referring to the non-fulfilment of them on the part of the United States, it orders that the privileges so granted shall expire on the Ist of next December, for the British possessions in the West Indies and America; on the Ist of March, 1827, for those at the Cape of Good Hope, and on the Ist of May, 1827, fur those in New South Wales and Van ,Dieman's Land. It further orders, that as British vessels from our Colonies are charged upon their ar rival in the ports of the United States with a duty of one dollar per ton for tonnage duties and light money, and a discriminating duty of 10 per cent, on their cargoes, all vessels of the United States entering any of the British ports in North America and the West Indies, until the Ist of December next, shall pay a duty of four shillings and three-pence per ton, and an ad ditional'oneaoT ten per cent. on their cargoes; being as nearly as possible equal to the charges levied by the Americans on our ships. - - - This proceeding on the part of his MAJESTY'S Go vernment is a necessary consequence of the conduct of the United States. In acting upon the principles of free trade, his MAJESTY'S Ministers reserved to them selves the right of withdrawing those concessions which, in the spirit of liberality, Great Britain had made to other Countries, for the purpose of bringing about that universal intercourse which it was conceived would be beneficial to all the nations of the world, pro vided the Governments of other Countries would ac t upon the same liberal principles. The experiment has been fairly tried with the United States ; and as she does not chuse to act with perfect reciprocity, his MAJESTY'S Government, with a consistent and due regard to the spirit on which the concessions were made in favour of American ships, withdraws the pri vileges which had been given to them, by a manly and candid avowal of the grounds upon which such pro ceeding has been taksn. Unwilling, at the same time, to subject the country tteci pixtion of a sudden and unlooked-for to au . , 4 h j Iper commercial regulations, and change of po. we to the Government of desirous of still Am,. ...14 1 , t h e restion, his MA. the United States to reconsu, '•-taut day for the JENTY'S Ministers have fixed a üb.. • * 0 erourse commencement of the altered system o f ••44, between her Colonies and America. It therefore res,_ with America to obtain, or finally reject, the ailvan tages which a reciprocity in Trade between the two Countries must necessarily produce. We hail this measure as a prelude to similar ones, which must be taken with regard to other Countries which have not acted with good faith and reciprocity, in return for those concessions which Great Britain was willing to extend to all nations for the diffusion of the benefits resulting from free trade. It will be seen by. last night's Gazette, that the average prices of grain for the last six weeks, which regulate the importation of foreign grain for home consumption, are below the limitation, and conse quently no foreign corn can be admitted for consump tion, before the 15th Novetnber at the earliest, unless, indeed, circumstances should arise to induce his MA JESTY'SI Ministers to act upon the discretionary power with which they are invested by the Act of the last Session, to allow of the entry for home consumption, o f a limited quantity. We received last night the Etoile, dated ThursdaY morning, no Other paper having been published on the precedin g day in Paris. It is stated from the Austrian Observer, that after seventeen days stay in the capital of MoldaYillt the Turkish Plenipotentiaries set out for Ackermann, but I stopped the same evening at the Russian Quarantine, at Skuleni, on the Pruth, a league from Jassy. On their departure they received the same honours as at their arrival. In the middle of the Pruth, which is the boundary between Moldavia and Bessarabia, they met the Russian Commissary PISANI, who went in a boat to meet them. Two companies of grenadiers, with their band of music, were under arms, and the house of the Quarantine was fitted up so as to afford the Plenipotentiaries every convenience. It was expected that they would stop six days at Skuleni. _ _ _ It is stated from Geneva, that the, King. of BA VARIA has sent to M. EYNA RD a sum of 106,000 f. of which 00 ; 000f. are from his own purse, and 26,000 f. subscribed by the members of his family, to be em ployed in the deliverance of the Greeks. The following is the KING'S letter To alleviate the misery of the Christians of the East, I had subscribed 20,000 florins, or 43,097 francs, payable in ten follow ing months. As this relief might,come too late, I place this sum now at your disposal, and even double it, that you may be able to afford more effectual aid. These 86,000, which you may imme diately dispose of, are independent' of the 20,000 francs which I remitted you to redeem the Greek women and children. With what pleasing satisfaction do I make this new sacrifice for unfor tunate Christians; for, am not I a man and a Christian?" It will remain to be seen whether this act of his Bavarian Majesty, which may have arisen purely from feelings of charity and compassion towards fellow- Christians, will not be construed as an infraction of that system of neutrality which all the Crowned Heads of Europe seem to have agreed to, in respect to the struggle which the Greek nation is making for its in dependence. The Etoile mentions that an ordinance of the Coun cil has been published at Geneva; authorizing the Pro testant Worship at Lucerne. Feumt FUNDll.—Puis, Aua. 16.—Five per Cent., opened at 100 f. 35c.; closed at 100 f. SOc.; Three per Cent.. 66f. 25c.; Bank Stock, 2,010 f. ; Bente, de Naples, 72f. 45c. ; Rentes de Espagne, 10f. ; Spanish Loan, 45if. ; Haytian Loan, 675 E - on London—One month, 25f. 65c.—Cours Au thentigue. St. Petersburgh Journals to the 3d inst. reached us last night by the Dutch Mail. Conformably to the regulation of the Imperial Manifesto of the 7th of May 1817, the Council superintending the establishments connected with public credit, assembled' on the 13th (25th) July, to revise the accounts of those establish ments, when his Excellency Lieut.-General CA NCRIU, Minister of Finance, delivered a speech, of which the following is an abstract, containing an expose of the state of the Russian finances. The prospects for trade this year are admitted not to be favourable, but it is assumed as probable that the present state offoreign trade, which causes the temporary distress of the trade of Russia, will not be of long duration. The following is the abstract : " The Course of Exchante in 1825 was higher than in 1824, which , had a favourable influence on our payments to foreign countries; but this rise had a tendency to lower the prices of our produce unless they are kept up by other circumstances. The prospects for trade this year are not so favourable, but it is highly probable that the present state of foreign trade, which causes the temporary distress of ours, will not be of long duration. " Our funds were nearly stationary, till the unexpected death of the Emperor Alexander caused a sensible decline, which was of short continuance; but the commercial crisis in England caused a general shock independently of political circumstances and events. " The operations of our banks in Nth were not without suc cess. The Loan Bank seemed with great advantage to employ the idle capital accumulated in the. Commercial Bank. In general the mass of deposits received by our banks has much augmented, chiefly from the decline in the prices of many of our productions, which rendered inactive a part of the capital usually employed in our internal trade. The interest of the sums lent by the Bank has hitherto been paid pretty regularly, notwithstanding the em. barrassments of the landowners. " A remarkable circumstance in the accounts laid before you is the temporary diminution of the annual expences in our system of credit, a diminution amounting to 20 millions of rubles. This measure had been adopted with your consent, and with that of the Council of the Empire, sanctioned by the Emperor.—(The Minister entered at great length into the nature of this diminution, and the manner in which it bad been effected.) " The Sinking Fund, paid in 1825, of the Dutch debt, one million of florins, one half of which was for the account of Russia, " Of other Debt►►—..ll2,ooo rubles in silver; 2,157,333 in as signet,. " There were redeemed of Perpetual Debt, at 6 per Cent.-- 646,960 rubles in silver ; 6,517,640 rubles in assignate. '• Of Perpetual Debt, at 5 per Cent.•--1,831,644 rubles in " The Creditors of the War and other Departments have been paid besides-382,532 rubles in silver! 1,831,630 rubles in assignate._ "By thus payments the debts are now u follow : " Dutch Debt-91,600,000 florins,, of which 46,600,000 on account of Russia. " Debts for a certain time-2,575,999 rubles in silver ; 51,378,666 rubles in assignats. " Perpetual Debts Six per Cent. —20,620 rubles in gold ; 7,844,852 rubles in silver •, 220,528,911 rubles in assignats. " The Debts at 5 per Cnt.-75,664,860 rubles in silver. " BANK OF ASHIONATS.—The amount of Bank Notes in cir culation did not vary in 1825, it remained 595,7'76,310 rubles as before, which chews that the law prohibiting the further emis sion of paper currency has been chiefly observed. " THE LOAN BANK.—The net profits of this Bank, in 1821, were -469 rubles in gold, 35,583 rubles in silver, 1,865,140 in assignats. " The Commercial, Bank, the capital of which is thirty mil lions, made in 1825, after deducting the expences, a net profit of 1,375,899 rubles. " Such, Gentlemen, is the actual situation of these establish ments. I hope that an impartial examination of their operations will suffice to justify the confidence of the public, and the expecta tions of the august Monarch, whose reign distinguished by a pa ternal and indefatigable solicitude for the happiness of Russia, will establish on solid foundations the public credit, and every part of the social edifice." We received Caraccas Papers this morning, burtheir "ninents relate chiefly to the discussion of a federal 4-1-I °erninott in Colombia and the other con- form of tiguous States : tblovaetretb::::ltstdihiia.pit iminTties' :eft:lre tohfeef::,;(ll:acetahricaotesixrodpnNienargtitile'Wone:laeltil ZiZI CARACCAS. (Prom El, Colombiana.) t JUNE 28.—This paper contains an extremely long :YU contemplates tl cle, chiefly on the propriety of establishing a federal sys tem in Colombia. 'fhe Nlowing are some of the conclud ing observations:— hi carrying this measure into effect, however, various rgeiCilliarateusurcineessntatwmnolcue;st possible, limit:pd to the protec tion present themselves: such as the face of the vioanuniddt that a r st e u v go e gf u e i Ns i revenues , J i irl i t ;i s te ng b o three a country, gt, nera general its t p .l o ii p o: u s. l e a : t yo i n o il i d i : t4 ".c i that minute division, such si as rn admit, however; in go sh fra o vi i: de li i i :e b ete e utie t p l i i ai v i: id ,a i s to s ay, one in the ancient C a p ta i n ni o i b t l ad e, and the duties of capital . of each legislature Guayaquil and Carthagena. third stilieoostiyei Id i er i taw i otf t iii ) oac u lotl i au t ri o nr 0 . 01 ee tion and advancement of these respective nations; snot in cluding, however, the appropriation of their revenues, and the amount of their anti, two of the General Congress Points essentially the Pro vinceto the mutual ambition and as a check to conquest, and Then legislatures would b encroachments of the nations. well and ably conducted by men, with very moderate e task with . .talents, provided they gq to the good principles ranimated by a d • q.for the advanceinent and happiness of their country. It is imagined by some . persons, that great difficulties will present themselves in this particular. We see none,how ever, inasmuch as no abstruse questions of foreign or na tional policy can come before them : the state of their roads, their agriculture, commerce, population, and educa tion, are the most important topics to be discussed; , snd though, in the outset, they may, through inexperience, handle even these matters roughly, they will be in due right path, and acquire fresh vigour as they advance. The General Congress should be established in the centre of the Republic, and would necessarily demand, in its man hers, greater talents and acquirements than are needed in the subordinate Legislatures. Their number should, however, be the fewest possible, and well paid for their labours, and for their banishment from their families and interests. We confess we cannot see the difficulty or the inexpediency of this change. — It seems to us that the will of the people (we speak of them collectively, and not as belonging to this or that department) should be the will of those who preside over them, nor can we admit a pretension on the part of the latter apart from the sanction it derives from the former. ,In short, we behold a Federal form of Govern ment matured in Mexico and Guatemala, and advancing to maturity in Buenos Ayres and Chili, w hilst in Colombia , Peru, and Bolivia alone, do we beh old the contrary. The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 12th inst. has been received this morning. Under the head of Augsburg, the punishment of the Russian Conspirators is pictured in dreadful colours : Auasnuao, Atm 10.—On the 26th April, this year, Cat° Wackerbarth presented in person to the German Diet at gam' fort a remarkable statement of a claim, a printed copy nfoll__7.l dated Wackerbarthsuche, April 1, 1826, has been commuoi°"*", to us. It appears from this document that the ancestorsofeAt Wackerbarth became, in 1565, sureties for Duke Frame Elder, of Saxe Lunenburg, for the sum of 5,000 marks in save!' borrowed for the benefit of the country, and as neither the pul e nor the elder discharged the debt, the sureties were oblird„. t° it in ready money in 1678, with all the interest up to "" of i. tim a e and the expellees, which, according to the present ell " ° money, made 11,500 marks of silver, or according to the y OO accurate accurate calculation of persons versed in these matters, 36, Louie d'ors. Now, as notwithstanding all proceedings before the Chamber of the Empire, no part of this sum was ever paid' .' cept 6000 crowns; and as a capital of 5 per cent • interest ts doubled in 20 years, Count Wackerbarth calculates that the debt which in 1580 was 36,500 Louis d'ors, in 1600, 7 5 , 000, and 10 0 on doubling every 20 years, amounted in 1820, Louis d'ors, a trifle which the Diet is humbly requested to apt Hanover, Great Britain, and Denmark (the last, as the prestos possessor of Saxe Lunenberg) to pay without delay. AUGSBURG, AXIO. I I. it the We yesterday communicated, says the Munich Gaze account of the fate of the conspirators in Russia, statirg that. bto sides the principals who were hanged, other, were coutirelyl(!...... labour in the mines, some for life, others for different Pett‘iLt., Great criminals are in general sent to the silver wise s st ,. t his 'china, on the frontiers of China. Even the jouLil e Y, st, place, which is 2,000 German (9,000 English) °Jr Ir° ,l„ ott Petersburgh, may be called a capital punishment, as til e P" - l o g e must go the whole way on foot, fastened together by s as chain, so that great numbers sink under their hardshil" on t h e road. Those who are let down into the mines for life, (this is are considere. fate reserved for Prince Trubetskoi among others,) to 200,704,00 as already dead ; the prayers for the dead are said for them, 1 . 114 earth is thrown upon their bodies, as on a corpse that is to 134 . 1 .,.. /1. terred. But even of those who are condemned fo r some Yrl-si only to this most unwholesome abode, and the bard lahou r , i , mining, hardly one ever returns to the surface of the earth ; !Is, dreadful place of punishment soon destroys n the strongest om uta b, tion, and even if they escape with life, their fate is like that of individuals condemned on the 24th of July, so that t h e y can ‘t again leave Siberia, and Nertschinsk is situated on that part 0 Russia. The French Papers of Thursday have reached 00 at a late hour this afternoon by the Calais steam-04 by which we learn the prices of the French Fund' 0 that day ti per Cents 1001. 40e. 3 per Cents OA. 15e. Spanish lof. It is with feelings of the deepest grief that we lied in the Irish Papers most melancholy accounts of ' l4 l distress of the poor in that C oun t r y, b e i ng aggravated at the present moment by the horrors of fever in dysentery. The Hospitals of Dublin are crowded to e x , c 7, 1 with patients suffering under these diseases, an ': i t. i. number. of applicants is far bey o nd th e means 0: - ; e The LORD LIEUTENANT, With t I promptness and hum a nity w hi c h mar k his o ° Ter '' n ' o ment of Ireland, has t a k en every mea ns t rest the progress of th e ma l a d y , a nd to tsoli r . additional acc ommod a ti on f or t h e persons ~1,1111, We ing unde r it. T en t s , camp - equ i pages , and " — b ee n furnished by the O r dn ance Department, i d employed to receive those whi c h the nosPits's to Dispensaries could not take in ; but s uch B r e stio . numbers of the infetted . persons, that the Old t ny one hour. al t t z e, 1 en e sa n e 8 cordialst and, t t w hw l,:it ll o C contains t a h i n a had i h n e a e n n y fi vi tt ar eti ci tt s, P: s a glea inpnwoeirytrri,pinaHtiKeonisntpsgit „ • i , ~jo_ A statement has been published by the riii;i g i ict and Surgeons of the Dublin North Eastern : W hich Dispensary, giving many melancholy details , :sn,i;chs they state, t hat " although fever of a contag' ° l 7 e ver, ratter has been for some years prevalen t ' Y e- 'i t° I even in the years 1817 and 1818, did it rsi e .. t h a n greater extent amongst th e . poor of this metror calmsly it does at present ; and, in addition to this Ict dysentery, In an aggravated form, has again beg show itself." to I' s We fear that the cause of this visitation is to food; traced to the prevalence of distress; and want °;',, Or . the only effectual mode, therefore, of arresting i '7 for gress will be found in those measures witic i ' l l 1 , 1° 04 l t ttahi h tnie e sdLr o ec t os l or t p e d-e r oc . pLt e:re T auuti l te : e active their object the alleviation of the one, an p encil the y afli b i e : affluent of o b t f e o n al: 11 : 0 1 . 41 : 1 1 ?: 0 : i - r . .k ,re:f charity in this season ' of dire distress and diSell mittance. We have given, in another part of our 1 _Wer, ~,,. port (7! 4 Meeting held at Manchester, for the I lne pt ration of the un""Alltled distress now distil* i n townsurrounding popllol , t.. , . Cop , 111 4 the I is illslm - ~ The people naturally turn tbei.i tittlf'o9 ll 49 vernment i i to - for protection and relief; P s '. r ios child does to . it s coos°, l l, to thatparent, without a O great portion of the misery is attributer' no their P u e ruc ier)co , or imrovidence ;we t i t ' l ro th , wish to u sel unpleasan t epithets, but truth is, .. oe l however ' painful it may sound to those wii'vleot its force and justice most ticutely. . We do I wt b t u j$ to deny that d the Go 'stress exists, and that extensively id the vernment to be charged with having catis e lles ? distress, or to be responsible for its consequie 4 1,:e Whenever things go on prosperously , Pe their great_ credit to themselves for the success of ti' ci ,,,kies, etdations, lauding up their foresight to th u 'OOl and dwelling upon the prospective benefits ' nut must result to the ' country - in consevence ; lieu) , when the tide of their affairs turns upon a l ly' the fault. is at once imputed to the Governo— it..4 and the old watch-words of economy, retrenclovel PRICES OF STOCKS Till Bank stock - 3 per Cent. Red 79% 3 per Cent. Cons. 7 8%% 3J4 per Cent. Dato Red 3614 si, 4 per Cent. New 914% Ditto Scrip Bank Long AWL India Stock 'Zil Ditto Bonds 25 24 pm. isiDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent. — Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds Chilian Bonds, 6 per ct. Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824 V:, 9 I% Danish, 3 per cent. .. Greek bonds Ditto, 1825 Guatimala Mexican Bonds 31)4 Do. 1825......44% 3% 4% 4UN Paid, 015 15 Neapolitan, 1824 Peruvian Bondi Portuguese Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent. Ditto, New . — Russian, New, 5 per cent. .Spanish, 1821 lOX X 11E123 — French Rentes, 5 p. c loof. —c. --- Exchange 251.60c. —3 per cent. ----Exchange 251. 60c. • PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE 0 CLOCK: Per Share. 15 11% 31 27% 21 TUCKS, AUG. . 16. .St. Patrick Insurance Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine IA dis. Imperial Mine Fish Shares New Brighton ANGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn , 47 Genoa 43 Venice 49 Malta Naples 39 Palermo per oz. 114 Lisbon 4 0 3 :4 Oporto 40!., Rio Janeiro 4'2 Bahia 44 Buenos Ayres 4:l Dublin, 21 days' sight l ll Cork BULLION, PER OZ. s. (I. Portugal Gold, in coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, In bars 3 17 6 New Doubloons New Dollars 0 4 9 Silver, in bars, standard 0 0 0 Anglo Mexican Minlng Company Brazilian Mining Company PRICE OF IRISH Bank Stock . 228 IN Gov. Stock, 33.. per cent B's Ditto, New 84% 4 per Cent. New 934 Gov. Deb. 33 per cent.... SSNI,n Consols 3 per cent Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent. BO Ballast Office Deb. 4. per cent, --- COURSE OF EXCII Amsterdam C.F. 12 8 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 9 Antwerp l2 9 Hamburg!) 2Y, U. 37 11 Alton a 2)4 U. 38 0 Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto .2 U. '26 5 Bordeaux 2ll 5 Berlin Franktbrt on Maine, Ex. M. 156 Petersburg!), rble: ...... 3 Us. HK Vienna, eftctive ti 2 M. 10 26 Trieste do. Madrid 3s Cadiz Bilboa 'l4 Barcelona Seville 3s Gibraltar s.s Arrived. Due. Dublin I Waterford 0 • Donaghadee 0 O Guernsey& Jersey I Lisbon 0 O Gottenbtirgh O Hamburg!' O Ho►land DAY AT ONSO'CLOCK. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d 16 18 pm. Ditto 5OO 2,1 16 19 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Advertised Bank for Account — India for Account Cons. for Account ....... —.78)6% ILS. Arrived. Due. U France • Flanders 11 Jamaica 1 Leeward islands • Malta 0 O ' America 0 U Brasil 0 O Buenos Ayres HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 39 minutes atter '3, I Evening 51 minutes atter 3. Itbit